After noon. You just finished lunch at First Watch in Westchester and
are presently in the nearby Barnes and Noble. Carol is looking for books and
magazines. Earlier you ran several errands after leaving your house for a cleaning.
Last night you posted an article on AI that was more than amazing to you. Add
the basics of the article below as well as the place any interested reader can
find and read the fuller article for her or himself. - Amorella
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You think it and a robot sees
it: The future is here with mind-reading AI
by TRISTAN GREENE — 1 day ago in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The first
“this could change everything” AI story of the year comes to us in the form of (yet
another) AI that’s supposed to read minds. This time however, there’s no
parlor trick. We’re one step closer to being able to broadcast our thoughts to
a screen, thanks to artificial intelligence.
Japanese scientists have created AI capable of reading a
person’s brainwaves and displaying an image based on what they’re looking at.
If a person is staring at a picture of the letter “A” the AI will successfully
create an image that resembles a fuzzy version of that. It’s actually reading
the person’s mind – sort of.
The scientists published
their paper “Deep
image reconstruction from human brain activity” wherein they state:
Here, we
present a novel approach, named deep image reconstruction, to visualize
perceptual content from human brain activity.
Over a 10 week period the scientists showed images to human test
subjects and recorded their brainwaves. At times the subjects brains were
monitored in real-time while they were looking at the images, other times they
were asked to “recall” the images. The researchers used the brain scans to
train a deep learning network to “decode” the data and visualize what the
person was thinking about.
When these machines are learning to “read our minds” they’re
doing it the exact same way human psychics do: by guessing. If you think of the
letter “A” the computer doesn’t actually know what you’re thinking, it just
knows what the brainwaves look like when you’re thinking it.
It visualizes your thoughts by guessing what output we want to
see based on the data from our brains — unlike human “psychics” whose guesses
are based on, we’ll just say: less scientific data.
AI is able to do a lot of guessing though — so far the field’s
greatest trick has been to give AI the ability to ask and answer its own
questions at mind-boggling speed.
The machine takes all the information it has – brainwaves in
this case – and turns it into an image. It does this over and over until
(without seeing the same image as the human, obviously) it can somewhat
recreate that image.
For now, it’s obviously not perfect – but it’s almost certain to
be a use-case for the field of deep learning that sees extensive development.
That’s when things get interesting.
One day technology like this may turn our minds into projectors
or allow us to share streaming footage of our actual dreams with one another.
It’s difficult to imagine the ramifications of a technology that could make our
brains the penultimate computer input device.
This could enable understanding without communication: the
ability for humans to gain knowledge from machines or other humans instantly.
It could also destroy the idea of privacy, ruin poker forever,
and start World War III, but that’s a different article.
Selected
and edited (without photos) from - https://
thenextweb dot com/artificial-intelligence /2018/01/10
/you-think-it-and-a-robot-sees-it-the-future-is-here-with-mind-reading-ai/
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1244 hours. I will open
the FB page article from 'friends' to 'everyone' is a reader is interested. The
profound potential of this conceptual software program may change how we think
from the inside out. Dreams or other subjective thoughts may be image copied from
machinery. How would it be to have a strongly visual dream and have it copied
so that you and/or others can see it for what it was? The subconscious and
perhaps later the unconscious mind could be visually integrated into a sharable
reality. Wow.
1307 hours. What if my alien machinery could use this? How would it use it? For what purpose? The questions begin.
You stopped at Graeter's near
UC/Westchester Hospital off Cox and Tylersville for two kids' cups. You are
waiting for Jill to finish cleaning which is about two-thirty.
1409 hours. Yet again I
re-read the article. I was so engrossed on the literal dream imagery that I
forgot the other side -- understanding without communication. Now I am doubly
blown away. The ramifications are beyond imaginary filtering, at least at
present. Learning without (usual) human to human; human to machine, machine to
human communication; learning instantly. I have no more words for this.
You had a nap. Carol found you needed a few more things from the store
and another bill to drop in the mail so, here you are in handicap parking in
front of Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road. You are having chili for supper.
The snow began falling when you left the house and now it is snow and sleet and
the cars are being covered; very messy. Salt trucks are out and have begun
their street rounds. - Amorella
1610 hours. It's changing into
a snow storm right before my eyes. Quite surprised to see it come so quickly.
There will definitely be icy roads, the road is beginning to freeze as the snow
is now sticking to the asphalt. The cars that were already here in the lot right
in front of me are covered with a thin though growing layer of snow and ice
mix. People are scurrying around actually red faced from the wind. There is a
poor young fellow taking in a string of grocery carts. People get antsy when
the weather changes. Another boy has come out to pick up more carts. It's fun
watching people's body language as they move around quickly with a little more
determination in their gaits . . . like
'suck it up and get out to the car and out of this miserable environment'. Ice
now forming on the windows. Time to restart the car and turn on the back window
heater and defrost before it ices up. (1623)
Instincts are kicking in. Necessities for immediate physical survival,
don't you think? - Amorella
1626 hours. It's not that bad,
Amorella. The lady in front of me dropped her grocery sacks in the back seat
and is now ready to pull out after using the windshield wipers to clear most of
the ice and snow. She didn't have to use a scraper. It's not that bad. People
just want to get into the warmth of the store or out into the warmth from the
car engine. It's not a matter of life and death.
No, but in days not that long ago it might have led to such grave
matters for many. - Amorella
1631 hours. If you are talking
about flu or pneumonia, I suppose. Just shut the engine off -- too hot in here.
It's not snowing so much at the moment. I don't know why Carol is taking so
long, she just wanted a couple of items.
You are home. Carol came out as you were writing your last sentence.
Whether you realize it or not. We communicate non-human to human in much the
same way as the article suggests except we use twenty-six letters, a few
numbers and other symbols found on the old typewriter keyboard. I, the
Amorella, use your system. We both have had to adapt to communicate more efficiently.
- Amorella
1702 hours.
How does that work on your end? Is it 'thought' transfer, like mind reading?
That's, how I think of it.
I don't have a mind, boy. - Amorella
1707 hours. I don't think of
you with a physical body or even a spiritual body (with angelic-like representations),
but 'mind' is the only thing I could come up with that allows us to communicate
-- I have a mind and you have a mind-like mind. This is hypothetical, of
course, otherwise, I assume you are a manifestation of my singular mind
separated into two parts - a long term hallucination of sorts.
I understand that's your hypothesis for the theoretical, but I know you
better than you think, young man. - Amorella
1716 hours. Is this your
statement: You 'know' me better than [I can] think.
Yes. - Amorella
1720 hours. You are being
literal.
Yes. - Amorella
1721 hours. With our lengthy
relationship I have no reason to doubt you, plus, the blog supports plenty of
evidence that you do 'know' me better than I myself do. This in itself shows
there is very little to nothing that I can 'know' anything about you . . .
though I may come to some understandings, for example, I see you as benevolent.
Yes. - Amorella
1726 hours. This presently
puts me in an 'awkward state of being' or state of consciousness. I am either
'more' or 'less' conscious of my sense of 'a full being of humanity'.
You are assuming your sense of being is less human because you are
under the impression something of 'reality' is suddenly missing from the moment
at 1716 hours. - Amorella
1735 hours. This is making me
tired, Amorella. I need a break.
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